Chuvash folksongs.

Original cloth bdg. Large roy. 8vo. (25 x 17,5 cm). In English. 579 p., 54 numerous b/w plates and musical scores. Ethnic origins and history of the Chuvash.; Chuvash folksongs collections.; Hungarian studies of Chuvash folk music.; Dialects and melody types of Chuvash folk-music.; Musical features of Chuvash folksongs: Note-sets, forms, melodic lines, metre, rythym, syllable-number.; Experimentation by instrumental measurement.; Songs relating to the life and customs of the Chuvash people.; The Chuvash language, The origins of Chuvash, its development, dialects and literary usage, The phonetic system and the method of transcription followed in this volume.; Stylistic and poetic features of the songs.; How the songs were collected, systematized and edited.; Explanations of symbols.; Order of tunes.; Chuvash folksongs (1-350); English translation of the song-texts. Notes.; Hungarian translation of the song-text.; Indexes.; Bibliography. MUSIC Ethno-musicology Turkology Chuvash peoples Central Asia Folk culture Ballad.